Permanently Beautiful

Jen's Natural Look

Jennifer Aniston worked her way into American hearts as Rachel on Friends and never left. She’s the proverbial “girl next door,” fresh and wholesome looking. Jennifer uses a few special makeup tricks to create her very natural look. She may look like she’s not wearing makeup, but it’s a light hand and adept application that give Jen the natural appearance admired by so many.

How does she do it? Jen only applies eyeliner to her top eyelid, usually leaving the bottom lid naked or applying only a faint, thin stroke of liner to the bottom lid. To enhance her natural look, Jennifer chooses eyeliners in pale grays and light browns. She counts on a medium coating of mascara on both top and bottom lashes to make her eyes pop. To enhance her eyes, Jennifer favors barely there, lightly applied eye shadow in pale grays, beiges, pinks and lavenders. Jen sticks to natural looking lip colors in light brown, peach or pink. Her trick is to color her lips just slightly darker than their natural color.

Permanent makeup can give you Jennifer Aniston’s natural look 24 hours a day without tedious time in front of the mirror. You can have permanent eyeliner in a natural shade tattooed on just your upper lid or add a barely there line to your lower lid. Permanent eye shadow can enhance your eyes with natural beauty 24/7 and it never cakes or creases. Your lips will always look naturally beautiful with permanent lip color. Permanent makeup is the ultimate natural look!

Have you ever heard a woman say, “I feel naked until I put my face on”? For many women putting on their makeup is more than part of their morning routine, it’s a symbol of their femininity. Like doing their hair and dabbing on their favorite scent, applying eye makeup and lipstick makes women feel more beautiful, self-confident and ready to meet whatever the day has in store. Even women who favor the natural look and choose to skip foundation prefer the way they look with a dash of eyeliner, a swipe of mascara and a touch of lipstick. Makeup enhances our natural beauty and makes us feel good about ourselves.

A stroke, arthritis, muscular dystrophy, long illness, accident or other degenerative condition or disease strikes at the very core of who a person is as an individual and a woman. The inability to apply makeup when motor skills are lost and hands shake can be a tragic blow to a woman’s sense of femininity and sense of self. Without makeup she no longer sees in the mirror the woman she once was. It makes her loss cut even deeper. Permanent cosmetics can restore a woman’s sense of personal beauty and her self confidence in her appearance.

Artfully applied cosmetic tattooing can create beauty-enhancing permanent eyeliner, permanent eyebrows, permanent lips or even a full face enhancement. With permanent makeup, a woman who is no longer able to apply her own cosmetics can still look like she’s just applied fresh makeup.

The economy will continue to drive the way we dress and live in 2010. Realistic fashionistas are going practical with a return to smart basics. Expect clothing to feature good, sturdy fabrics in mixable neutral shades of brown and gray. Clean lines, simple cuts and a more classic look will dominate 2010 fashion. Versatility will be the name of the game. Women will splurge on just a few fabulous pieces that offer multiple ways to dress up or dress down their wardrobe. For example, savvy shoppers will look for items like a sleek leather tunic that can be worn as a mini-dress, vest, tunic over leggings or even light outerwear. Women will continue to look for smart ways to stretch their clothing budgets. Individual expression in the midst of Plain Jane fashions will come from colorful custom-designed jewelry and artfully applied permanent makeup.

This year the eyes have it! In 2010, permanent eye makeup will focus attention on your beautiful face. It’s your eyes that will add that special spark of alluring fire to practical fashions. Perfectly arched and feathered permanent eyebrows will provide a window to eyes exquisitely lined with permanent eyeliner. Add neutral shadows for serious work hours, then go wild with a slash of neon bright shadow for evening wear. The spring release of Tim Burton’s film version of Alice in Wonderland is expected to add a hint of Victorian whimsy and wild psychedelic colors to fashion accessories and makeup pallets this spring.

The natural look may be in for every day wear, but New Year’s Eve calls for glitz and glam! Vibrant, bold lip colors in glossy, wet shines say you’re ready to party. New potted lipstains are fun, wear beautifully and are available in flashy, bright colors. Or choose a long-lasting lipstick in one of this season’s bold new reds topped with a slick, glossy shine. Remember to carry a refresher to touch up your lips right before that special midnight kiss!

Shimmer is in for New Year’s Eve. Glam up your eyes with a line of shimmery eyeliner and a couple extra swipes of mascara. For ultra bold eyes, layer two thick lines of shimmering eyeliner above lashes, overlapping just slightly. Depending on your mood, use complementary or contrasting colors or pick up a colors from your dress.

If you like glitter, this is your night to shine! A dusting of glittery blush across cheeks and decolletage adds sparkle. Roll on glitter for hair is fun, just don’t overdo it. A little glitter is alluring; too much makes you look like a Christmas ornament.

Naturally, if you wear permanent makeup, you’ve already cut your prep time. Just moisturize and add a little pizzazz. Your already perfect permanent makeup — eyeliner, lipliner, lip color, etc. — serves as a fabulous foundation for adding a little glitter to cheeks, glimmer to eyelids and shiny color to lips. Just apply New Year’s Eve makeup right over your permanent makeup.

It’s hard to believe but the ’80s are back! Big hair, football-size shoulder pads, kohl-lined eyes and ruby red lips. In the 1980s women came into their own in the workplace. Clothing fashions, hair styles and makeup reflected women’s new-found power on the job and served to augment her presence in heretofore male-dominated board rooms. Fashions were forceful and imposing and makeup had to be bold and colorful to stand out. In the 1980s women wore more makeup and eye makeup and lip colors were darker and more noticeable than they had been before. It was a look that commanded attention.

Research has shown that every 30 years fashion styles repeat themselves but with a new twist on the original. Today’s makeup styles give the brassy, look at me ’80s a  softer, more sensual appearance that exudes self-confidence and says we’ve arrived and we’re here to stay! The dark kohl-lined Goth eyes of the 1980s have been softened into far more sensuous smoky eyes. Lips are still red; but instead of the bold, brassy reds of the ’80s, lip colors are softer, warmer, earthier reds. It’s the lip liner not the bright color that calls attention to the lips today; but instead of matching liner and lipstick colors, liners are going more brown this season. And put the lip gloss away during the day. Matte-finish lip stick says I’m in charge at the office.

Permanent makeup can give you the perfectly applied lip liner that is the base for today’s powerful, sensuous red lips.

New Moon, the second eagerly-awaited installment in the Twilight Saga, is opening in theaters. With brooding, blood-sucking hunk Edward (Robert Pattinson) off doing vampire things, will beautiful Bella (Kristen Stewart) turn for comfort — and romance? — to mysterious werewolf Jacob (Taylor Lautner)? The allure of the Twilight series goes beyond teenybopper fandom. The best selling series by Stephenie Meyer has women of all ages turning pages late into the night. Sensuous and sexual without being explicit, Meyer has transformed sex into the more emotionally powerful yearning. In a Time magazine interview, saga screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg called it “safe sexuality. It’s the ultimate romantic ideal. You have the allure of danger. And yet there’s only so far you can go.”

Who knows how far you’ll go when you slip into New Moon’s mysterious “Twilight Eyes.” The dangerous allure of New Moon’s otherworldliness begins with the eyes. Create Bella’s sensuously tortured look by first defining eyes with a thin line of chocolate eyeliner. Thicken and define brows. Use a pale neutral pink shadow under the brow. Apply russet brown shadow lightly to eyelid, feathering and slightly smudging up toward inner brow terminus and slightly beyond outer eye line. Add a very light swipe of shadow under eye and feather slightly toward cheek; don’t smudge the eyeliner.

Permanent makeup provides the perfect foundation for Twilight Eyes or any look. Lush permanent eyebrows perfectly frame your face. Permanent eyeliner flawlessly defines eyes. Add shadow and you’re ready to prowl!

With the last chocolate bar a fading memory, it’s time to put away the Halloween grease paint and start thinking about your holiday look. Thanksgiving marks the start of holiday festivities. Dress up cocktail parties, family gatherings, office bashes, potlucks with friends, dancing ’til dawn, shopping junkets with the girls – a girl’s got to look good! So what’s hot for the holidays? Sex, smoke and shimmer!

Soft, smoky eyes get the holiday touch with a little shimmery shadow on the lid. Carefully apply then smudge a thin line of deep brown or gray eyeliner to top and bottom lashes. Stay away from black; you don’t want sepulcher eyes (Halloween is over). Add mascara, a swipe of shimmery blush to your cheeks and finish with a light lipstick or gloss. Stay away from dark lips to keep the focus on your eyes. Permanent eyeliner adds depth to your eyes. Smudge a little eyeliner on top to smoke up your eyes.

Go sexy this holiday with deep red lips. Line lips first, then use a lipstick brush to fill with your favorite show-stopping red color. Shimmer a sparkling blush along your cheek bones. For this look, keep the focus on your sexy lips by pairing with a light matte eye shadow that’s close to your skin tone and a swipe of mascara. Permanent makeup creates a perfect lip line for the sexiest lips this holiday. Create permanent lips in your favorite lipstick color or apply new shades over the ideal background for your skin tone.

Longer, darker, fuller lashes croon the commercials for lash-extending mascaras. Their siren song seems to promise that if you swipe their product on your eyelashes, men will fall at your feet! What the commercials don’t tell you is that fibers, chemicals and dyes in mascaras can cause serious eye problems in some people, particularly those who suffer skin or chemical allergies. Bits of mascara or extension fibers can flake off eyelashes and fall into the eye, creating a serious abrasion hazard for contact wearers that can damage the cornea. And mascara wands result in numerous eye injuries every year. I mean, who hasn’t poked themselves in the eye on occasion trying to apply mascara? Consider yourself lucky if you didn’t do some permanent damage. Despite the fact that Johnny Depp has signed on for Pirates of the Caribbean IV, the eye-patch look is only in at Halloween!

There is a better, safer way to call attention to your eyes. Permanent eyelash enhancement, particularly when paired with permanent eye liner, calls attention to your eyes without putting them at risk. Permanent makeup can make lashes appear thicker, lusher and fuller without eye makeup. Permanent eye makeup means your eyes look fabulous day — and night. No running eyeliner when you’re sweating at the gym, no mascara dotted cheeks when you wake up in the morning, no more embarrassing dark smudges and no need to “freshen up” as you move from office to night life — just 100% beautiful eyes 24/7!

The sensual Smoky Eyes that super model Heidi Klum shows off to such spectacular effect are the ultimate in dramatic eye makeup. Softly smudged shadows surround and feather out from the eyes, creating dramatic depth and making it seem that your eyes truly are the window to your romantic soul. It’s a look meant for romantic, candlelit dinners in exotic restaurants or red carpet nights dancing at the hottest new club. But it’s not an easy look to achieve. Start with too thick a line of eyeliner or get a little heavy-handed with the eye shadow and you have raccoon eyes, disaster unless you’re going Goth to a midnight showing of Rocky Horror.

Here’s how to create Smoky Eyes without the raccoon effect. Start with a very fine line of black eyeliner. For perfectly outlined eyes every time, consider permanent makeup eyeliner. Thicken the line slightly at the middle of the eye to create depth. Don’t use black for the eye shadow. Runway makeup artist Linda Hay creates Heidi’s smoky eyes using soft gray or chocolate shadows. Dark greens also work, but avoid blue shadows. Choose two shades of the same color, a dark and a lighter, neutral tone. Sweep the darkest shade from your lash line to the eyelid crease. Apply the lighter tone from the crease to the brow bone. With a cotton swab, stroke gray or medium-dark brown shadow under your lower lash line. Finish with three coats of black volumizing mascara on the top lashes only.

When you’re standing in the checkout line at the grocery, who doesn’t love to sneak a peek at the less than glamorous pics of Hollywood’s elite on the pages of Star or the Globe? It’s fun to catch the rich and famous with their hair down and their makeup off; kind of levels the field. One celeb the paparazzi will never catch in a less than photog-ready moment is singer-songwriter and business mogul Dolly Parton. Despite the admonishments of cosmeticians to strip off your makeup at night to give your pores a rest, the Nashville legend with the giggly laugh goes to bed with her makeup intact, particularly when she’s visiting LA or NYC where her Tony Award-nominated Broadway show 9 to 5: The Musical will close on Labor Day.

Dolly isn’t about to let the paparazzi catch her in a Nick Nolte moment. “I think I’m not going to wash my face until morning, and then I’ll clean it off and I’ll put it on in case I have to get up in the middle of the night,” she told CNN. “If I go out in public, people expect me to look a certain way. And if you say, ‘There’s Dolly’ … you expect to see them in the way that … you know them.”

What Dolly needs is permanent makeup. With natural-looking permanent eyeliner and permanent lip color, you look picture perfect day and night.